#sybil deidre olgivanna ramkin

[pourablecat]

Fall flat on our faces in front of Lord Rust, let's not.

[klinefelterrible]

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[ansatsu-sha]

Beside the drift of paperwork was a book. Vimes twisted painfully and looked at the spine. It said: Diseases of the Dragon, by Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin. He turned the stiff pages in horrified fascination. They opened into another world, a world of quite stupefying problems. Slab Throat. The Black Tups. Dry Lung. Storge. Staggers, Heaves, Weeps, Stones. It was amazing, he decided after reading a few pages, that a swamp dragon ever survived to see a second sunrise. Even walking across a room must be reckoned a biological triumph. The painstakingly-drawn illustrations he looked away from hurriedly. You could only take so much innards.

Terry Pratchett / Guards! Guards!

[tatalynxart]

Her Grace, Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes-Ramkin, Duchess of Ankh

[theygotlost]

ok i already said that i miss sybil but i need to talk about it more. lady sybil is such an amazing character in guards! guards!. we get to see all these interesting parts of her: her passion for dragon rearing, her lovable mix of stern authority and a kind heart, the dissonance between her immense wealth and her hatred of having to parcitipate in pageantry, her take-no-shit attitude, the dynamics that develop between her and each watchman (the way she is somehow the only person in ankh-morprok who can't tell that nobby is a disgusting little freak is still funny to me), not to mention the very endearing meet-cute and schoolgirl crush she has on vimes. she's a fully realized and fleshed out character and i loved her and wanted more of her (i also Want Her. ahem hem). i could read about her doing literally anything shes just so awesome.

and then she is instantly and utterly sidelined. men at arms skips any kind of detail or development in sybil and vimes' relationship. they went directly from will-they-wont-they (they dont even end up as an official couple by the end of gg) to engagement as if it's a matter of course. and then she's practically absent from the whole book. she has like, 2 or 3 lines of dialogue and they're all to nag her husband. he pretty much leaves her at the altar cause hes too busy Dealing With The Plot to show up to his own wedding. and she is COMPLETELY absent from feet of clay. vimes mentions her by name a couple of times lest we forget she even exists, but they dont even have a single conversation together.

its heartbreaking to me. dgmw i still VERY MUCH enjoy these books but im just so disappointed thinking about how much i would have loved to see sybil play a role in them. her ladyship sybil deidre olgivanna ramkin i love you 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[baggebythesea]

Vimes: Vimsing

No one: ...

Absolutely no one: ...

Absolutely no one at all: ...

Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin, Duchess of Ankh: PATHETIC MAN! MINE! I CALL DIBS!

We talk about how quickly Vimes had it down bad for Sybil, but can we also appreciate that five foot nothing of scrawny alcoholic turned up at Sybil's door and she was immediately like "help me with my dragons. let's have tea. did you know my ancestors fucked severely? gosh you're a captain, how dashing." When Vimes was injured she could have had him put in her spare bed but nope, she put him in her bedroom. And then she slapped his arse. Lady Sybil knew what she wanted.

[leona-florianova]

Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes (née Ramkin)

[hag-o-hags]

“Evil little bantamweight bastards who’ll bust a bottle on the bar and try to attack five watchmen all at once. You know what I mean? Idiots who’ll go on fighting long after they should stop. The only way to put ‘em down is to put ‘em out.” † His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes (Michael K. Williams)

“’I think I recognize the type, yes,’ said Lady Sybil, with an irony that failed to register with Sam Vimes until some days later.” † Her Grace, The Duchess of Ankh, Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes (née Ramkin) (Queen Latifah)

[pourablecat]

Baby pics!

[transscribepage]

Rincewind is happy just screaming in abject terror I think

Tiffany read the dictionary front to back I think she could be more prosaic than that. Also she's far too utilitarian with her words/actions to do so in the first place.

Sam is a legitimate contender

Granny doesn't need to, and she doesn't lose her cool that easily

Moist would never slip in his public persona that badly. He's a people's person, he couldn't possibly swear!

No perceivable reason why William is on here

Polly is also a possible contender

Again, why is Mort here

Some missed opportunities, however;

Her Grace, The Duchess of Ankh, Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes (née Ramkin))

Adora Bell Dearheart

Angua Von Uberwald

any of the Nac Mac Feegle

[pourablecat]

"The burnt bits are bad for you, Sam. Let me handle them?"

Your parents ever steal food off each others' plates?

[pourablecat]

Young Sybil is joining the headcanoned-with-glasses-squad, current members one Magrat Garlick and one Havelock Vetinari. If Magrat has comically opaque glasses and Vetinari has scarily opaque ones, Sybil just has cute ones. Does she keep them later on, though?

[pourablecat]

Boring functions tip: save a dance for your dad boss!

[thesunshinesanctuary]

Suffer-Not-Injustice Vimes

Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Ramkin Vimes

Magrat Garlick

Princess Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling

Esmeralda Weatherwax

Annagramma Hawkin

Petulia Gristle

Every name a novel.

Absolutely obsessed with the names Terry Pratchett gives to his characters

“You Bastard”

“Moist von Lipwig”

“Cut me own throat dibbler”

“Medium Dave”

“Carrot Ironfoundersson”

Like, ok king

[pourablecat]

He's Practicing

[pourablecat]

Hojotoho!

(Was playing fire emblem and thinking how cool Sybil would be as a pegasus knight because of the valkyrie connections, and THEN I learned wyvern knights are a thing)